CARROLLTON, Va. — Jeanine Scherrer wants to make sure school bus drivers and assistants are properly trained to work with students with disabilities after she says her nonverbal son was mistreated on a school bus last school year.
Scherrer is the mother of Trevor, a Smithfield High School student with special needs who rides the bus home every day.
I spoke with Scherrer in March about her son. She said he was mistreated by a school bus attendant while on the way home from school.
Scherrer used video footage to support her claims. She says the video was also shown in court in June.
The bus assistant Scherrer accused of mistreating Trevor faced a misdemeanor assault and battery case in June. The case was dismissed by the judge.
"He watched it several times and he just didn't see anything significant in the video," Scherrer said.
Scherrer says Trevor's new bus driver hasn't been announced. She says she's staying on top of it and urges other parents to get to know their student's bus driver and bus assistant.
"Talk to the bus driver, let them know things that work for your child, no one needs to be yelled at or pushed around or any of that kind of situation let alone someone with a disability that doesn't understand what's going on," Scherrer said.
"What I want to see go forward is that I want to make sure that these bus drivers and bus assistants are getting the training that they need to deal with the disabilities," Scherrer said.
In March, the district told News 3 all of its drivers and bus assistants who transport special-needs students go through training to work specifically with those students.
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